Saturday, August 23, 2014

Jim Carrey Gets His Own Stamp

Jay Bigalke writes on the Linns.com website, "Five funny Canadians are being honored Aug. 29 on new commemorative
permanent stamps from Canada Post. The five stamps in the Great Canadian
Comedians set pay tribute to Jim Carrey, Mike Myers, Catherine O’Hara,
Martin Short and Olivier Guimond."

All are living honorees except for Guimond, who died in 1971 according to Jay.

Jay goes on to say, "The stamp designs pictured with this article are Canada Post publicity
images. The stamps were designed by Kosta Tsetsekas, Mike Savage and
John Belisle of Signals, a design firm in Vancouver. Canada Post stamp
design manager Alain Leduc organized the stamp project."

The stamps come in a booklet of 10. with each stamp repeated twice. A souvenir sheet is also available with all five stamps along with an uncut press sheet of four souvenir sheets.